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Renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced the United Nations refugee agency to suspend aid to displaced people. | Renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced the United Nations refugee agency to suspend aid to displaced people. |
The UNHCR said hundreds more people have fled their homes because of the latest clashes in North Kivu province. | The UNHCR said hundreds more people have fled their homes because of the latest clashes in North Kivu province. |
A week of clashes between the army and fighters from the FDLR of Rwandan Hutu rebels has killed 20 people after three months of relative calm, the UN says. | |
The army says it is planning a major offensive against the FDLR. | |
The UNHCR says violence in Kivu has now displaced almost 900,000 people. | The UNHCR says violence in Kivu has now displaced almost 900,000 people. |
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The BBC's Arnaud Zajtman in Kinshasa says FDLR fighters attacked a camp where 1,500 people were sheltering on Thursday, forcing them to scatter. | |
They had earlier briefly abducted three policemen guarding the camp. | |
UNHCR officials said most of the displaced people are women and children who are sheltering in public buildings. | UNHCR officials said most of the displaced people are women and children who are sheltering in public buildings. |
Some said their homes had been destroyed and their possessions looted, while some parents said they had lost touch with their children. | Some said their homes had been destroyed and their possessions looted, while some parents said they had lost touch with their children. |
The FDLR includes some of those Hutus involved in the 1994 genocide, who fled to DR Congo after Tutsis took power in Rwanda. | |
Rwanda has long demanded that the FDLR be disarmed, saying they are the cause of the instability in the region. | |
The displacement in the Rutshuru area, some 70km north of the provincial capital, Goma, comes three months after the signing of an accord in Goma between the government and a different armed group, led by renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda. | The displacement in the Rutshuru area, some 70km north of the provincial capital, Goma, comes three months after the signing of an accord in Goma between the government and a different armed group, led by renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda. |
Gen Nkunda had also demanded that the FDLR be disarmed - he took up arms, saying he was protecting Congolese Tutsis from Hutu attacks. | |
A peace agreement in 2003 formally brought years of war to a close, but fighting flared up again in North Kivu that same year. | |
The UNHCR says there are about 1.3 m displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while 350,000 Congolese have fled to other countries. |